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Man Arrested In Jogger's Death

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Tribune staff report

Published: September 27, 2007

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The Hillsborough County Sheriff's office has arrested Kenneth R. Jackson, 25, of Seffner, in the killing of Cuc Thu Tran.

The 50-year-old woman disappeared from the street where she was jogging Sept. 13 and was found 15 miles away inside a burning van in the Gibsonton area.

Tran had left home at 5:30 a.m. for a jog. Her son reported her missing at 4 p.m. that afternoon, authorities said. Tran lived in the Grandview Mobile Home Park, 5220 County Road 579.

Shortly before 7 a.m. that morning, deputies found the burning van in a vacant lot at 9414 Bullfrog Creek Road, off East Bay Road. The body inside was burned so badly that authorities could not make out the victim's race or gender at the time, officials said.

Detectives traced the van, which was a blue 1993 Dodge minivan that had been parked earlier at Advance Discount Auto's parking lot at 11850 E. Dr. Martin L. King Blvd., near Highview Road in Seffner.

Someone had taken it between 10:45 p.m. Sept. 12 and Sept. 13 and set it ablaze in the Bullfrog Creek lot with Tran inside, Callaway said.

Tran held licenses as a cosmetologist and nail technician. She had lived in the Seffner area for several years and had lived in Worcester, Mass., according to records. She worked at Lee Nail Spa at Westfield Brandon mall.

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